Mediation/Arbitration/Settlement Counsel

ADR Experience and Qualifications

Judith Meyer enjoys a distinguished career as a mediator and arbitrator applying her extensive ADR expertise to resolve more than 800 disputes over the past two decades involving virtually all areas of law including: contract, environmental, employment, construction, tort, personal injury, professional liability, medical negligence, insurance, class actions, bankruptcy, franchise, and UM/UIM cases. Ms. Meyer has served as a mediator or arbitrator on a number of ADR panels including: September 11 Victims’ Compensation Fund of 2001; EEOC Mediation Services Panel; National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.; USA Track and Field Olympic Trials, Doping Grievances Panel; U.S.D.C., Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Certified Mediator; and Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and Philadelphia Commerce Court as a Judge Pro Tem.

Ms. Meyer speaks and writes widely on ADR.  She gives one-hour luncheon CLE courses to law firms.  You can view her speaking experiences by clicking on the link below.

Lectures and Presentations by Judith Meyer

• Accidental death of husband and son brought by wife/mother (surviving as amputee) against a construction company, trucking company, and DOT
• Attorney malpractice for alleged failure to understand and/or advise client of terms of Joint Tortfeasor Release reducing $2.5 million verdict to $400,000
• Breach of distributorship agreement providing for entry of an American brand name product to European Union
• Claim of system failure by NASD broker against clearing firm
• Declaratory judgment action determining whether a single deductible covers "interrelated wrongful acts"
• Denial of tenure to university hospital physician in Department of Psychiatry
• Gender and religious discrimination, and interference with contractual relationship claims surrounding the termination of a department of nuclear medicine tenured chairman
• Mediator in 11 U.S.C. Section 547 preference avoidance actions
• Medical malpractice and wrongful death claim resulting from a craniectomy and removal of brain stem meningioma involving a corporate executive
• Multi-contractor dispute arising from the construction of a landmark Philadelphia business and retail center
• National class action alleging fraudulent sales practices in the placement of life insurance
• Sexual harassment and retaliation claim against an executive at a Fortune 500 Company

• Acceleration damages and breach of schedule claims by a general contractor against a precast concrete subcontractor
• Arbitrator under national franchisor/franchisee class action settlement agreement
• Assessment against deferral notes issued in Stock Purchase Agreement due to burden of hazardous waste clean-up
• Claim by an electrical contractor for work acceleration and compression in the construction of $73 million school project
• Dispute between a $40 million homeowner and a New York interior design firm
• Dispute between a hospital and doctor over purchase option and appraised value of a medical practice
• Dispute of an actuarial malpractice claim involving a corporate pension plan
• Dispute regarding contract interpretation of an asbestos abatement and remediation agreement
• Dispute under pharmaceutical asset purchase and manufacture/supply agreement regarding inclusion of a placebo
• Sexual harassment, constructive discharge, and battery claims by an assembly line specialty worker

• Pennsylvania Super Lawyer in ADR, Philadelphia Magazine, 2005 and 2006
• Fellow and Board Member, International Academy of Mediators
• Member, College of Commercial Arbitrators
• Judge Pro Tem, Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas
• Adjunct Professor, Cornell Law School 1999-2004
• Active Member, Pennsylvania and Idaho Bars; Inactive Member, California Bar
• Publishes and conducts seminars on ADR, Mediation, and Negotiation
• U.S.D.C., Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Certified Mediator

• Mediator and Arbitrator, J P Meyer Associates, Philadelphia ADR Firm, 1995-2004
• Of Counsel, Bazelon Less & Feldman, 1988-1994
• Neutral, American Intermediation Service, Inc./Judicate Inc., 1986-1994
• Litigation Partner, Los Angeles and Beverly Hills law firms, 1979-1988
• J.D., Cornell Law School, 1974; recipient E.D.P. Carey Legal Writing Award; member Moot Court Board
• B.A., Barnard College 1966